First announcement for an event (H02) at the
38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly - Bremen (Germany), 2010 July 18-25
Scientific Event H02: PROBING STRONG GRAVITY WITH GRAVITATIONAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
Duration: 4 half-days
Commissions E (Research in Astrophysics from Space) and H (Fundamental Physics in Space)
Sub-commissions: E1 (Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics)
Neutron stars and black holes probe the strongest gravitational fields found in the present-day Universe. A large number of such objects is continuously monitored with high-energy satellites. In parallel, the recent discovery of a binary radio pulsar allows precise measurements of GR parameters at a larger distance from compact objects. Soon, these objects will be detected with upcoming gravitational-wave observatories, which will open another avenue for the study of strong gravity and the test of GR predictions.
The scope of this two-day COSPAR session is to bring together experimentalists, observers, and theorists in these separate by complementary fields and discuss the strategies and aims of testing general relativity in the strong-field regime in the near future.
Scientific Organizing Committee
T.M. Belloni (Main Scientific Organizer, Italy), S.A. Hughes (Deputy Organizer, USA), D. Barret (France), M. Gilfanov (Germany/Russia), V. Kaspi (Canada), M. Kramer (UK), M. Mendez (Netherlands), R. Narayan (USA), G. Nelemans (Netherlands), D. Psaltis (USA), L. Rezzolla (Germany), M. Volonteri (USA),A. Watts (Netherlands), C. Will (USA)
Invited speakers - TBA
The precise dates of the Event will be announced as soon as they are fixed.
Abstract submissions for all COSPAR 2010 events opened on 2009 August 21.
**** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 2010 FEBRUARY 19 ****
Information on the 8th COSPAR Scientific Assembly can be found at
http://www.cospar2010.org/index.html and http://www.cospar-assembly.org/
Information on Event H02 is available on the COSPAR page
http://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/congress_overview.php?sessionid=216
and will soon be available at
http://www.brera.inaf.it/gravity2010/index.html
Conference email: gravity2010@brera.inaf.it
